Wait...

Desperately, helplessly, longingly, I cried;
Quietly, patiently, lovingly, God replied.
I pled and I wept for a clue to my fate...
and the Master so gently said,"Wait."

"Wait? you say wait?" my indignant reply.
"Lord, I need answers, I need to know why!"
Is your hand shortened? Or have you not heard?
By faith I have asked, and I'm claiming your Word.

My future and all to which I relate
hangs in the balance and you tell me to Wait?"
I'm needing a 'yes', a go-ahead sign.
Or even a 'no,' to which I'll resign.

You promised, dear Lord, that if we believe,
We need but to ask, and we shall receive.
Lord, I've been asking, and this is my cry:
I'm weary of asking! I need a reply.

Then quietly, softly, I learned of my fate
as my Master replied again, "Wait."
So I slumped in my chair, defeated and taut,
and grumbled to God, "So, I'm waiting...for what?"
He seemed then to kneel, and His eyes met with mine...
and He tenderly said, "I could give you a sign.
I could shake the heavens and darken the sun.
I could raise the dead and cause mountains to run.

I could give all you seek and pleased you would be.
You'd have what you want, but you wouldn't know Me.
You'd not know the depth of My love for each saint.
You'd not know the power that I give to the faint.
You'd not learn to see through clouds of despair;
You'd not learn to trust just by knowing I'm there.
You'd not know the joy of resting in Me
when darkness and silence are all you can see.

You'd never experience the fullness of love
when the peace of My spirit descends like a dove.
You would know that I give, and I save, for a start,
But you'd not know the depth of the beat of My heart.
The glow of My comfort late into the night,
the faith that I give when you walk without sight.
The depth that's beyond getting just what you ask
From an infinite God who makes what you have last.

You'd never know should your pain quickly flee,
what it means that My grace is sufficient for thee.
Yes, your dearest dreams overnight would come true,
but oh, the loss if I lost what I'm doing in you.
So, be silent, my child, and in time you will see
that the greatest of gifts is to truly know me.
And though oft My answers seem terribly late,
My most precious answer of all is still "WAIT".

-Author Unknown

A Change in Perspective

This morning I was reminded of a quote from Calm My Anxious Heart by Linda Dillow. Highly recommend this book!

"We must ask ourselves if we’re going to judge God by the circumstances we don’t understand or judge the circumstances in light of the character of God."

Lift my eyes to You; Reveal Your character to me....May I see from Your perspective today!

The Generous Gift-Giver

The following prayer in Ephesians has been a favorite Scripture of mine since the beginning of highschool. There is so much in this passage, but one thing in particular that has really been standing out to me recently is that there is nothing we can "do" in our own strength to gain either the power of the Holy Spirit, the faith that comes through Christ in our hearts, or the understanding of His never-ending love. They are free and generous gifts from the Lord.

"That [the Father] would grant you,
according to the riches of His glory,
to be strengthened with power
through His Spirit in the inner man,
so that Christ may dwell in your
hearts through faith; and that you,
being rooted and grounded in love,
may be able to comprehend with all the saints
what is the breadth and length and height and depth,
and know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge,
that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God."
Ephesians 3:14-19

The Lord is waiting to give us these gifts--yet, we must ask for them! He wants us to seek Him as the Source of all; in doing so, He not only wants to bless us with these gifts, but more importantly, He wants us to learn more about His character through our seeking. Sometimes He calls us to wait on His perfect timing--it is during these seasons that He wants to move us into a deeper intimacy with Him, BUT we must keep asking, keep seeking, and keep knocking (Matthew 7:7-8). He will open the door. If there was no wait in the release of these gifts to their fullest, then we would be missing out on the opportunity to experience God in a mighty new way.

I have also come to the recent realization that the fullness of God is MUCH much bigger than my mind can fathom. And He wants to fill me up! The only question is: will I let Him?

Welcome!

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